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In kaum einer systematischen Analyse des Kriminalromans als Genre fehlt die Lord Peter-Wimsey-Reihe von Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 1957). Da die Oxford-Alumna auch theologische Abhandlungen mit Fluchtpunkt auf eine kritisch engagierte christliche Alltagsmoral einbrachte, mag es nicht überraschend sein, dass dies Spuren in den Kriminalromanen hinterlassen hat. An ihrem besonderen Roman Aufruhr in Oxford (Gaudy Night) von 1935 finden sich nun Schilderungen eines epiphanischen Erlebens einer Aura des Augenblicks der Atmosphäre der 'Stadt der träumenden Türme', die in der vorliegenden Abhandlung im epistemologischen Lichte einer responsiven Phänomenologie hermeneutisch rekonstruiert werden. Dabei wird expliziert, wie aus diesem epiphanischen Erlebnis eine Dichtung resultiert, die erst im Zuge der Einwilligung in die Liebesbeziehung von Harriet Vane zu Lord Peter zur Ausdrucksgestaltwahrheit reift.

• Introduction: The many and the one : coporate bodies and the body politic in US law and culture
• Narrating monopoly and empire : Austin, Irving, and the Charles River Bridge Case
• The soulless corporation : Cooper and the decline of the republic
• Satanic coporate agents in the marketplace : Hawthorne, Melville, De Forest, and the uses of allegory
• Incorporating the nation : Ruiz de Burton and "quasi public" corporations
• The end of individualism : Tarbell, Norris, and the power of combinations
• Conclusion: Frankenstein in a grey flannel suit.

"This book examines the way the corporation -- a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition -- was imagined in the nineteenth century historical imagination. Stefanie Mueller traces the ways in which literary and cultural representations of the corporation in nineteenth-century America helped shift how the corporation was envisioned; from a public tool meant to serve the common good, to an instrument of private enterprise. She explores how artists and writers together with lawyers and economists represented this transformation through narrative and metaphor. Drawing on a range of legal, literary and visual texts, she shows how the corporation's public origins as well as its fundamentally collective nature continued to be relevant much longer than previous scholarship has argued."-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface: "An Invitation to the Chit-Chat" / Robert Lloyd Parry
• M. R. James (1862-1936)
• The Scrap-book of Canon Alberic ; Lost Hearts / M. R. James
• E. F. Benson (1867-1940)
• The Other Bed / E. F. Benson
• R. C. Bosanquet (1871-1935)
• The Dean's Story ; "Red Gold [poems] / R. C. Bosanquet
• R. H. Benson (1871-1914)
• Father Bianchi's Tale" / R. H. Benson
• J. K. Stephen (1859-1892)
• Man Stories / J. K. Stephen
• A. C. Benson (1862-1925)
• Basil Netherby / A. C. Benson
• H. W. Tatham (1861-1909)
• The Phonograph Bewitched / H. W. Tatham
• Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
• The Shadow of a Midnight ; The Ikon / Maurice Baring
• Will Stone (1872-1901)
• A Fable / Will Stone
• Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952)
• Pargiton and Harby / Desmond MacCarthy
• Gerald Warre Cornish (1875-1916)
• An Extract from 'Beneath the Surface' / Gerald Warre Cornish
• Appendix: The Green Bay Tree (1894) : An Extract from The Green Bay Tree / W. H. Wilkins and Herbert Vivian.

"Alif is a middle-aged, mild-mannered history teacher, living in contemporary Delhi, at a time in India's history when Muslims are seen either as hapless victims or live threats. Though his life's passion is the history he teaches, it's the present that presses down on him: his wife is set on a bigger house and a better car while trying to ace her MBA exams; his teenage son wants to quit school to get rich; his supercilious colleagues are suspicious of a Muslim teaching India's history; and his old friend Ganesh has just reconnected with a childhood sweetheart with whom Alif was always rather enamored himself. And then the unthinkable happens. While Alif is leading a school field trip, a student goads him, and in a fit of anger, Alif twists his ear. His job suddenly on the line, Alif finds his life rapidly descending into chaos. Meanwhile, his home city, too, darkens under the spreading shadow of violence. In this darkly funny, sharply observed, and shockingly moving novel, Anjum Hasan deftly and delicately explores the life of Muslims in India and the force and consequence of remembering your people's history in an increasingly indifferent milieu"-- Provided by publisher.

"The lure of the unknown is a collection of Algernon Blackwood's essays, talks, reviews, and anecdotes exploring encounters with the strange and unusual or, in Blackwood's preferred word, the "odd". They include his first attempts to investigate alleged haunted houses, his association with such luminaries as W. B. Yeats, "A.E.", and Gurdjieff; his thoughts on telepathy, reincarnation, elemental spirits, other dimensions, and his beliefs in what lies beyond our normal perceptions. These writings reveal not only Blackwood's diverse experiences but his depth of reading and analysis of the unexplained. Few of these essays have been reprinted beyond their first publication or their broadcast on radio and television. They provide another dimension to an understanding of one of the great writers of the supernatural"--Page 4 of cover.

• Alvin Kathemb
• Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
• Gabrial Awuah Mainoo
• Ruvimbo Chido Chikanda (RUBZI)
• Christine Coates
• Kwaku Dade
• Jeremy T. Karn
• Phodiso Modirwa
• Taofeek Ayeyemi
• Bryan Obinna Joseph Okwesili
• Amirah Al Wassif
• Prince Rayanne Chidzvondo
• Londeka Mduli
• Richard Mbuthia
• Timothy Fab-Eme
• Nebeolisa Okwudili
• Leroy Mtulisi Ndlovu
• Pusetso Lame
• Nsah Mala
• Isaac Kwaliba
• Nehemiah Omukhonya
• Ann Pendo
• Eratso E. Noni
• Energy Mavaza
• Aisha Naise Ahmad
• Carolyne M. Acen (Afroetry MA)
• Tryphena Yeboah
• Ronald K. Ssekajja
• Jeresi Katusiime
• Carla-Ann Makumbe
• Jasper Harry Sabuni
• Nicole Natsai Chimanikire
• Justine Nagundi
• Fungai Gwen Makuyana
• Elizabeth Kayongwe Lukoma
• Ernestina Edem Azah
• Tatiana Natalie Kondo (banshee)
• Oppong Clifford Benjamin
• Billyhadiat Taofeeqoh Adeola
• Nnane Ntube
• Philiani Amadeus Nyoni
• Hauwa Shaffii Nunu
• Esnala Banda
• Zziwa Zinbala
• Sihle Ntuli
• Gerry Sikazwe
• Xitha Makgeta
• Ayouba Toure
• Sarpong Osei Asamoah
• Caroline Anande Uliwa
• Adjei Agei Baah.

"Fifty-one African poets writing from thirty countries across the continent"--Page 4 of cover.
"This highly imaginative and inventive collection of poems by fifty-one African poets writing from thirty countries across the continent, offers powerful poems that do not flinch from exploring experiences, hopes, aspirations that are deeply personal yet collective, the collection blurs the lines between the individual and collective voice in ways that are ironic, sad, humorous, light hearted, pessimistic, compassionate. Here poets subvert language, images and form to make them tell their stories, as well as being reflective of their past, present and future. Here poets remind us that human emotions can be and are beautiful, the journey of self-discovery is as painful as it is cathartic"-- Back cover.

"Honor Guinness is rich, aristocratic, shy and awkward - nothing like her glamorous cousins Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh. But when she marries the charming and ambitious, American Henry 'Chips' Channon, together, they make the perfect couple. Determined to conquer London society, they are soon are at the heart of the best social circles - including a close friendship with the Prince of Wales and Mrs Wallis Simpson. But within the marriage, all is less than perfect. Meanwhile, Honor's best friend, the beautiful, enigmatic Doris, is focussed on marrying well to provide security to her family. Born to a German-Jewish mother, she has charm and looks but not Honor's advantages of birth and connection. Set 1932-1936, The Other Guinness Girl is an evocative story of excess and wealth against a backdrop of events that changed Europe: The rise of Nazism, the abdication of a king, and the slide into World War II. But will Honor, and Doris, find where they belong in times of change?"--Publisher.

• A valuable education
• Elementary geometry
• Autopia
• The denial of death
• Neighbourhood fascism.

"This book proposes that Ballard's novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centered around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies, Ballard's novels reminds us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis, complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular, the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.